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Riding high: the elegant art of Matthew Polenzani this month's Tamino in the Met's Zauberflote.(Interview)
"Ho-ly! Oh, wow, that's amazing!" exclaims Matthew Polenzani, his eyes widening in astonishment. The reaction is to a favorable comparison with his idol, Fritz Wunderlich, many of whose hallmarks seem to live again in Polenzani's fresh, straightforward approach to text, pure, open vowels, long breathed phrases and sheer sweetness of timbre. Polenzani's wife and baby daughter are sitting in on our December interview in my OPERA NEWS office, and while Polenzani takes in the compliment, his wife, mezzo Rosa Maria Pascarella, laughs, "He's going to sleep well tonight."
Even as winner of the 2004 Richard Tucker Award, Polenzani seems genuinely surprised to be where he ...
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